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PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS 1914-1916 - LUDWIG WITTGENSTE...

During the pandemic  Marjorie Perloff  leading scholar of global literature  found her mind
ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of
eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks  which
richly contextualise the early stages of his magnum opus  the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus 
had never before been published in English  the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about
translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914  this historic  en-face edition
presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army  fresh from his
days as a philosophy student at Cambridge  who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow
soldiers  the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of an explosive analytical
philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy's
The Gospel in Brief  Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it
augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.

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